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Big Band Remotes

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Old Time Radio, Big Band, Remotes

Big Band Remotes from the 40's and 50's.

Addeddate: 2006-07-21 17:01:31

Boxid: OL100020611

Identifier: BigBandRemotes

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Reviewer: bigred14 - - April 21, 2023
Subject: Good. Oldtime

James. Meisner

Reviewer: PatonsPage - - February 25, 2022
Subject: The Count Basie Band at Birdland, January 1953

Basie's great 1953 Big Band playing some wonderfully recorded sets from his gig at Birdland over the first two weeks of the year.

Reviewer: bigear - - December 9, 2019
Subject: Great Thanks

Lots of good times here thanks a lot Matt NY

Reviewer: cfred - - April 26, 2014
Subject: Thank You

These remotes have provided me with hours of joy; thanks for uploading them.

Reviewer: The Reaper - - July 25, 2012
Subject: marvelous airchecks

Great recordings, really fun to listen to with good sound. The Count Basie, Gene Krupa and Fletcher Henderson sessions are hitting the spot for me tonight.

Reviewer: X2NE - - August 15, 2011
Subject: big band remotes

molto rilassante,sicuramente da ampliare

Reviewer: qrper - - January 27, 2011
Subject: Teddy Powell great

Actually they are all wonderful. I can't get enough of 30's 40's music.

Reviewer: Luckymudster - - January 26, 2011
Subject: Fantastic!

These remote (and other) shows are so stunningly great! There simply are not enough superlatives to describe how much I have enjoyed them and how appreciative I am to the uploaders!! Thank you!!!

Reviewer: The Bridge - - December 4, 2009
Subject: Band Remotes

I was a little young for some of the Big Bands, however my neighbor was Murray Mecekren the Trombone/Sax player for Harry James and other, it was pure joy to hear him practice. Doubt that I spelled his name correctly. Then years later I acquired a good buddy name Herb Jefferies, who was with Duke Ellington for some time, and he is still singing. Last LP I got of his was "Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again," nice LP on CD. I was told by Herb and a friend of his that Steve Allen liked Murray so much that he snatched up everything he could find of his playing, and re-recorded them, then sent out those recordings to his friends. To me, the Big Band Remotes are a way of catching up with some of the good music of the time. My thanks go out to those who saved this stuff, and those who keep it available to us.

Reviewer: doug8916 - - November 8, 2009
Subject: Fantastic

I grew up listening to some of these Big Bands as a youth in the late 40's early 50's. Listening to these makes everything seem so much better.

Reviewer: DaNess - - June 21, 2009
Subject: Priceless

I dig JaZZ A lot so this collection is simply priceless to me, I'm downloading the entire directory right now.

Reviewer: wil333 - - April 30, 2007
Subject: Great stuff

Love this site ---just wish you could post more...I've heard all these more than once.

Reviewer: Daniel Beller - - April 12, 2007
Subject: The magic of OTR at its best

It is a delight that the Internet Archive makes available such a vast vault of OTR to the world. The Band Remotes, appearances of Bands for Radio transcribed to 14" 33 1/3 rpm acetates, preserved the magic of the golden era of radio. All the performances in this collection as well as in the BAND REMOTES one, are top notch, and a real joy. They bring alive an era of great music and musicians, that even 60 years after, are unsurpassed.

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